As we grow older, we lose much of that…

As we grow older, we lose much of that flexibility or plasticity. It is therefore incumbent upon the young to recognize that their ability to change is at the highest level when they are young. Change. Youth. Flexibility.

— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Sick Souls, Healthy Minds- How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag

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Conscious life of any kind, William James saw, has this same quality — a structure pliable enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once: built to bend, not break. The catch is that this clay stiffens with age — we lose much of that flexibility as we grow older — which is exactly why the young must recognize that their power to change is at its highest right now. As James also warned, we are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and the threads, once spun, are hard to undo. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)

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